1010 The wind suddenly rises
This year's awards season is particularly interesting. After the New Year, the war gradually began to become fierce. However, as the Golden Globe nomination list shows, "Tower of the Sky" and "Walking Walker" are undoubtedly the focus of the discussion. Both works have their own advantages and disadvantages, but for the academy, they are both suitable choices; more importantly, both works are all-star lineups, and the topics and hype are effortless, which easily attracts the attention of all viewers. The academy's public relations are even more in the water.
At the same time, the "Dream Chaser Girl" suddenly began to soar, and the shouts were unparalleled. The praises all believed that this work was the true emperor of this year's awards season. Compared with "Tower of the Sky" and "The Walker of the Infinite Scene", the "Dream Chaser Girl" that perfectly combines dreams and freedom is undoubtedly the best choice. What's even more rare is that "Dream Chaser Girl" alludes to the real story of Motown Music Company, which was spreading across the United States in the 1960s, is like "Sunset Avenue" and "Cometre Beauty" who mocks the Hollywood industry like works that always win the Academy's full house.
Silently, Paramount has grown into the most powerful competitor of Warner Bros. this year's awards season, something people have never expected.
Relatively speaking, the discussion on "Raging Road" seems to be slowly cooling down.
On January 10, "Rampant Road" officially passed the "Titanic" and became the new box office champion in North America. For a time, the whole of North America was excited, and congratulatory videos were flying all over the sky. With the concerted efforts of people, an R-level movie actually created history and broke the shackles since the implementation of the rating system. This was even more incredible than the sensation of "Gone with the Wind" - the latter firmly controlled the position of the film history champion while calculating inflation, and even "Star Wars 7" in 2015 cannot be surpassed.
But behind such brilliant achievements, the sound of the awards ceremony of the "Raging Road" awards season has gradually settled down. It is not that it has disappeared or retreated, but that professionals in the Hollywood industry have begun to cool down intentionally or unintentionally. When the number one hot spot for the awards ceremony season was mentioned, the "Raging Road" had already fallen behind the "Tower of the Sky", and behind the "Walkward Walker" and "Dream Chaser Girl" can only be regarded as the No. 4 seed. This situation has formed a strong contrast with the enthusiastic pursuit of the audience and the media, which makes people say they can't understand it.
Now, news about "Raging Road" seems to be everywhere. When people mention "Rampant Walker", they always mention the great achievements of "Rampant Road" in commercial box office; when people talk about "Tower of the Sky", they will also think of the wonderful settings of "Rampant Road" for different ethnic groups in the wasteland doomsday; when people argue whether the "Dream Chaser Girl" is excellent enough, the madness and persistence of chasing freedom like moths to the flames in the "Rampant Road" is even more exciting... No matter which work is mentioned, "Rampant Road" is closely followed, but the sound waves have obviously begun to cool down for the film's Oscar prospects.
It is incredible to describe it - how can the work with the highest discussion, the highest topic, the best reputation feedback, and the best box office performance is not the number one hottest in the awards season? It's hard to figure it out, but in fact, this situation is not surprising.
Rumors spread in the circle for a while. Some people believe that the "Raging Road" has touched the bottom line of many men and has nothing to do with patriarchy. Instead, the movie has successfully shaped the image of female protagonists and achieved great success. In the future, male actors will be affected in terms of pay, casting, influence, added value, etc., which also means that the movie has lost the support of a large number of men's votes, and the prospects for the awards season will naturally decline.
Some people believe that the "Raging Road" is probably difficult to please in the eyes of feminism. The movie does not mention a single word about how Ferosa went from a slave to a general, but the comparison between Ferosa's past tribe and the Immortal Old Qiao tribe insidiously expressed discrimination against women, which is unacceptable to feminists. Therefore, the number of women's votes seems to be shaking and does not turn to the "Raging Road" as expected.
Some people believe that the rise of Chaos Film has not only impacted the interests of the six major film companies, but also impacted the authority of the academy. After all, the top forces in the Hollywood pyramid have been in power for many years, and change means that some people must hand over some of their interests, which will inevitably go through some pain. Therefore, those leaders who hold power and reap interests will inevitably be unwilling to sue the "Raging Road", and they will do all their strength to suppress the "Raging Road", even if the price is to pursue the "Queen" - although the latter is also produced by Chaos Film, it is a standard awards season work, which is in line with the current trend.
These rumors are not only circulating in Hollywood. When major news media reported on the awards season, they also revealed the relevant meanings inside and outside. Although they did not say it explicitly, they still awakened people's memories of the dispute in the summer. The "Rampage Road" seems to be unpleasant on both sides, and is always on the cusp of controversy. Five months have passed, but the controversy brought by the movie still seems to have not dissipated - R-level movies have become the box office champion in film history. Is the data here really not poured in? A cult movie has become the mainstream benchmark, but can it really be comparable to classics like "Star Wars"? The title of the number one seed contestant in the awards season is so loud that it is not worthy of its name. The prospects of the work at major awards ceremony are obviously not so outstanding. Isn't Chaos Pictures boasting?
It is precisely because of this that the momentum of the "Raging Road" impacting the awards ceremony season has been significantly weakening. What is even more in contrast is that Chaos Film has appeared in the public relations of the academy this year, which has shown a different posture from previous years. However, it seems that the harder Chaos Film works, the worse the situation. Now it is not just the "Raging Road", but even the "Queen" has been affected.
What does such a result mean, what can it change?
During the controversy, the attitudes of the people reflected on the Internet are completely different. Just like the controversy in summer, people will naturally get their own judgments and opinions as long as they go to the cinema to watch this work in person. This is precisely the reason why the "Rampant Road" is so excellent. This is not only a commercial popcorn, but also a work that can make people think and discuss. Their artistic dependence on the depth of the audience's thoughts.
There is no doubt that this is a work that is far better than "Star Wars". Whether it is men, women, mainstream media, minority groups, professional film critics, or amateur audiences, people should actively express their opinions, but they should also actively express their support. Such a work that finds a high balance between business and art will become a crucial part of the long history of films, and no one should ignore it. Oscar once missed "Citizen Kane", "2oo1 Space Odyssey", "Shawshank Redemption" and "Pulp Novels", and then missed "Saving Private Ryan" and "Brokeback Mountain". Do you still have to miss the "Railway" now?
On the 250th list of imdb, the "Raging Road" ranks high at the championship, and the number of ratings has exceeded 1.2 million, clearly showing what "what the people want" is. However, no matter how loud the ordinary people are, what can they do? They are not qualified to vote, they cannot change the decisions of the judges, and they cannot even shake the media's views.
Just before the Golden Globes ceremony was about to be unveiled, a rumor in Hollywood spread: the best film in the plot will belong to the "Tower of the Sky", the best film in the music comedy will be won by the "Dream Chasing Girl", and the best director will be realized by Martin Scorses.
There are countless predictions during the awards season, not only the media, but even the film companies themselves make internal predictions and judgments; but this news is solid, as if it has predicted the Golden Globe Awards results, which is indeed not normal, especially in this year's melee situation.
Among the major media's predictions for the Golden Globe Awards, the call for the best film is "The Walker in the Stroke" and "The Little Sunshine Beauty". The best director Clint Eastwood and Martin Scorses are really a dilemma, and no one can make a judgment. But this rumor made the final choice directly. The bold decision made people smell some abnormal breath. What's more strange is that the breadth and depth of the rumor spread far out of imagination. It seems that someone is pushing the rumor behind the scenes. Even Warner Bros. believes that this is the news circulating within the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and many people congratulate Martin in advance.
It's abnormal, it's really abnormal. Although major film companies rack their brains to make all kinds of tricks for the academy's public relations, they spend so much effort to promote a rumor? What is this for? To discredit competitors or to promote themselves? This really doesn't make sense. Even if there is an insider secret operation of the results of the Golden Globe Awards, this rumor is not right: because the three works in the prediction come from different teams, even Paramount's "Tower Tower" and "Dream Chaser Girl" produced by Paramount are divided into two departments. The former is Paramount's advantage, and the latter is Paramount's headquarters. Could it be that Warner Bros. made a splash to discredit Paramount?
The rumor surged was really stupid. In a blink of an eye, the whole Hollywood knew about it, but it seemed to have no purpose.
However, rumors are just rumors after all, and similar news is updated several times a day. Even if the rumors are so popular, it is not surprising. Moreover, rumors are just circulating within Hollywood, and the news media did not report them, so everyone just smiled and did not pay much attention.
Chapter completed!